Abstract
We characterize a 200GHz channel grid, wavelength-selective 4×1 switch with wide/flat passbands and low chromatic dispersion (|CD|<10ps/nm) for 160Gb/s transmission rates. Our findings indicate that the penalties associated with ISI and dispersion are very high.
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